Helen Uffner Vintage Clothing LLC

04/19/2025

Ayden’s intro to some of her favorite gloves in the post below!!! Which do you like best?

04/19/2025

Ayden picks out her favorites gloves in our collection after organizing our cartons! Here are just a sampling!

04/07/2025

Helena? who is Helena? From NY Magazine Hollywood Issue:

Nathan Lane: Wardrobe by Helena Uffner Vintage Clothing LLC (suit and tie)

Coincidentally, we also dressed Nathan Lane in the film "The Producers" and on Broadway in "The Man Who Came to Dinner"

Stylist: Daniel Edley
Photographer: Mark Seliger

04/06/2025

If you enjoyed this weekend's SNL, think you can recognize all our terrific WW2 clothing that we rented for this skit?

A nurse's boyfriend (Jack Black) reacts to her kissing a sailor (Michael Longfellow) in front of him while celebrating the end of World War II in Times Squar...

04/01/2025

We must say, our staffers can’t possibly take a bad picture, don’t you think? Here we are in our Victorian state of mind!

03/03/2025

Congratulations to one of New York’s own: The brilliant Paul Tazewell on his Academy Award win for Best Costume Design for Wicked! ( photo is from our place)

02/17/2025

In honor of Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary, we thought we would get together some stills we captured of our clothes we rented over the years - not all - but a nice sampling!

In the first several photos, we will show how the garment appeared in the skit with a follow-up photo of how it looks in person - either on a dress form or one of our staff!

Have fun!

02/14/2025

Enjoy this Los Angeles Times article about one of our favorite shows and favorite people, SNL's costume designer extraordinaire, Tom Broecker

Could we be one of those costume house sources mentioned? ...and we KNOW that the Ariana Grande's 1910 skit that was cut in rehearsals was our clothing (we were sent a still photo they took of her!) One of our posts on Instagram shows some of the many period clothes stars and cast have worn over the decades of working with show.

Congratulations, Tom, on being recognized for your brilliance and congratulations SNL on your 50th anniversary!!

Tom Broecker has played an integral part in the visual language of 'SNL,' leading the costume design team that has helped shape some of the show's funniest moments.

02/04/2025

Watch our for Allison Krause and Union Station's upcoming album "Arcadia", their first album in 14 years! Debuting March 28, you might recognize our clothes in the PR photos and video!

12/21/2024

10/31/2024

10/20/2024

Kudos to our wonderful Nicole, who created a "speed dial" overview of our new space! Feel welcome to come by or call with any of your production needs. We work locally, across the USA and internationally. Rumors that we I have closed are VASTLY premature! As you can see, we are alive and kicking!

08/22/2024

So nice for our company to get a mention in the recent Forbes Magazine!! The article is about the making of the recently released "Coup", a film about a cheeky 1918 Edwardian chef leading a battler of wits revolt against his rich employer! ! Thank you, Stacy Jansen and Forbes Magazine!!! !!

“We wanted to create costumes that feel playful and dramatic, but also made sense for the time,” said the costume designer, Stacy Jansen.

08/02/2024

WHO WORE IT BETTER? Here is a 19th century velvet mantle ( think “Gilded Age”) from the current F.I.T. “Statement Sleeves” exhibition….. and here is one of our own, authentic flocked velvet mantelets, replete with lappets and fur pom poms along the border! What do you think?

07/23/2024

….. when your interns are so gifted one makes herself a corset over the weekend and brings it so we can admire it! Yay. Sophie!

07/15/2024

On a hot day at work, we wanted to be mellow and not do anything too strenuous! Our delightful Dana and Sofia successfully learned to tie bow ties ( it only took an hour!) but now they are practicing on dress forms! Much harder, it seems!😀

05/01/2024

….. when you have an adorable young visitor today who wants to go to town in our hat section!!! (and perhaps try on a dress or two, also of her own choosing!)

04/16/2024

We are devastated to learn of the recent death of Carrie Robbins: master teacher and mentor to many fledgling costume designers at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, lauded Broadway designer and most of all, long-time friend of Helen's.

In 2012 she received the TDF Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work.

In recent years, Carrie re-invented herself again herself into an award winning playwright, putting to paper all the stories she culled from her late husband's medical writings and from her own history. Many of her plays, including her hand-made puppet &human play called "FOR THE LOST CHILDREN OF PARIS" to illustrate children's reactions to their first taste of antisemitism during the early years of WW2 in their European schoolrooms, were produced in New York and beyond.

Every year, Carrie designed and sent out holiday cards and posters illustrated showing her amazing artistic and illustrative skills and they were so lovely, Helen has kept all of them.

We grief with her friends, artistic community and extended family.